Workshops (Fr, 05.05.2006)

About finding the right packages with debtags?

von Enrico Zini (Debian or Bologna Free Software Forum)

Freitag, 05.05.2006, Raum 1A-3, 15:30-16:30 Uhr

An introduction to the Debtags project: what has been accomplished so far and the wonderful tools that are available to make sense of the huge package archive using debtags.

Contrarily to older tags about Debtags, I will skip the phylosophical parts and jump directly to technical contents, showing what can already be done and how.

I will cover what components consistute the Debtags system, the debtags and tagcoll commandline tools, the tagcoll and apt-front C++ libraries and the debtags-edit, packagesearch and adept GUI applications that make use of debtags.

Finally, I'll show how to contribute improvements to the tag database and what are the areas that need help.

Über den Autor Enrico Zini:

Graduated in Computer Science in Bologna University, freelance consultant on Free Software, official Debian Developer.
Within Debian, I am one of the founders and main contributors of the Debtags project. I am also involved in guessnet and other software projects.
I am interested in usability and in social aspects of Computer Science, and I'm involved in various local projects, like the
Bologna Free Software Forum group (www.bfsf.it).